Showing posts with label Virtual Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Virtual Care. Show all posts

COVID Tip: Remote Assessment in Primary Care

The Connect Care Clinical System Design (CSD) team is mobilizing clinical content (decision, documentation and inquiry supports) for emergency, inpatient and critical care management of patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 illness.

However, the most prevalent COVID-19 syndromes constitute mild disease that can be managed in the community. A recent BMJ article nicely describes how this can be facilitated with virtual care processes:

COVID Tip: Virtual Care Assessment of Oxygen Saturation

UPDATE ALERT 2020-04-02: EMERGING EXPERIENCE SUGGESTS THAT THIS ROTH SCORE IS _NOT_ VALID FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS.

Although there are no validated tests for assessing breathlessness via telephone or video conference, a potentially promising test, the Roth Score, is creating some buzz.

This is nicely demonstrated by a Welsh physician via Twitter: